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Part 1: Foundations 1. Prologue: News in a Fragmented Age 2. News and Journalism in the 21st Century Milieu 3. Defining News and Journalism 4. What Should News Do?: Ideals and Complicating Realities 5. The Rich, Colorful History of American Journalism: Overview and Perspectives Part 2: What Makes News Tick? Concepts, Controversies, and Conclusions 6. Unpacking the News: Refracting, not Reflecting Reality Chapter 7. Do Journalists' Personal Attributes Shape the News?: Myths and Realities 8. Journalistic Routines and Why They Matter 9. Organizational and Economic Influences 10. News and the Social System: Conformity or Change? 11. Epilogue

This article traces the five-decade legacy of a classic volume, Current Perspectives in Mass Communication Research, edited by Kline and Tichenor, published in 1972. After charting the epistemological origins of the book, the paper describes the particular confluence of factors—conceptual, university-based, interpersonal, and the forging of a propitious professional relationship between the book's co-editor and Sage Publications—that explain the provenance and critical impact of the book. The paper notes the contributions, shortcomings, and strengths of the 1972 volume, reflecting on the unique role the book played in the development of journalism and mass communication research.

There are striking racial and class-based disparities in health care. Racial and ethnic inequalities remain when socioeconomic factors are parceled out. Such inequities are profoundly disturbing in the United States, given the nation's philosophical commitment to equality. Communication can play an important part in reducing health care inequities. This introductory article discusses contributions communication can make, briefly summarizes the cross-disciplinary articles in this issue, and describes challenges that lie ahead.

Reviews & synthesizes research published 1983-1992 on W. Phillips Davison's third-person effect hypothesis (1983), which proposes that individuals assume mass communications to have a stronger impact on others than on themselves. Findings identify research supporting the third-person effect & factors facilitating & underlying its operation. The third-person effect is most often present when: the message contains recommendations that are not perceived as personally beneficial, the issue is perceived as personally important, & the source is perceived to harbor a negative bias. Further research is necessary concerning how third-person perceptions influence behavior. 55 References. Adapted from the source document.

With intravenous drug users as a target audience, distribution of brochures and pamphlets, along with use of some billboards, in Cleveland, Ohio, resulted in an increase in general public awareness of AIDS as a social problem, but did not result in much increase in knowledge of how to prevent AIDS, with the exception that citizens in Cleveland, versus another control city in Ohio, did know that needles can be sterilized with bleach. The campaign did prove its ability to influence public concern about issues by moving one concern up, an example of agenda-setting.